Odd Taxi Movie: In the Woods

Massive disappointment is an understatement. I was expecting 50% recap at most like the Goblin Slayer movie, but this movie turned out to be >90% recap and honestly just felt like a cash grab. The movie is over 2 hours long, but - no joke - 2 full hours is just recap, and the MAL description of "reconstruction" was giving it too much credit: it was basically just all the characters narrating the scenes from the anime series from their perspective without adding that much. Maybe if you dig really deep you could find some discrepancies/omissions in their narrations for some he-said/she-said type analysis, but ... that is a huge stretch.

The only completely new material was the final 10 minutes and even that was not satisfying. Without going into spoilers, the new stuff left me feeling, "That's it? Is that all I waited months for?" They could have easily edited the anime to fit the actual ending instead of leaving it in a cliffhanger so you would have to watch the movie to get the "real ending." Overall, this movie left a really bad taste in my mouth and felt like the production company tarnishing the legacy of a great anime for a quick buck. Just save your time and look up the ending somewhere in 5 minutes.

3/10, and the 3 points are just leftover goodwill from the anime series, which remains a masterpiece except for the ending.

This movie is the recapitulation of the original anime. Yes, I don't lie with this movie. I watched this in movie theater, but I regret, just the final had the rest of the story, when the Odokawa and the girl death the Yuki. So, is also shown the relationship and other situation in the Odokawa life's afater the acident.
I didn't reocomend the movie, is two hours thrown away, search in the Google or Youtube the final this movie, is too easy.
Finally, I odn't recomend this movie for all watched this anime before, but for a people we never watch this anime, I think intereting watch.

The point is: Odd taxi's movie is a recap of the anime, not entirely new content. Of course, there are a lot of new scenes with a new narrative point of view, like a police interview. I personally loved the experience a lot, even though I've watched the anime before. Another person went with me to the movie session, and this person had never seen Odd Taxi; loved the movie. So I think it's quite worth watching, just don't expect a sequel.



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So, basically, I really liked the movie and I don't understand people's disappointment, the producers themselves previously disclosed that it would not be a ... sequel...